Democrat Sorry For Saying 'Slavishly'

(CBS/AP)  Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer has apologized for a poor choice of words during a political rally with Democratic Senate candidate Ben Cardin on Sunday in Upper Marlboro.

As reported by MSNBC Tuesday, Hoyer criticized Cardin's Republican opponent Michael Steele for what Hoyer called-- quote -- "a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party."

Steele is black, and yesterday called the description racist and "the height of arrogance."

"It goes to just the sheer craziness of some in the Democratic Party who think they can use racist terms and infer things about me just because I'm an African American Republican," Steele said, reports The Washington Post.

The head of the National Black Church Initiative, the Reverend Anthony Evans, also condemned the remark.

Hoyer is the Number Two Democrat in the House of Representatives. In a statement yesterday, he said he should not have used the description. He added that if Steele did take offense, none was intended.

Steele began running a TV ad Tuesday that highlights the money Cardin has earned from drug, oil, and insurance companies despite his insistence that he is not beholden to special interests, the Baltimore Sun reports.

[radiob-2009]

Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate Tan D. Nguyen suspected of sending a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.

This sure sounds racist to me.

[janeymcgreev]

No, racistb, that would be YOU. Hows dem white sheets these days? Don't forget to wear one when you sit down nicely next to Barrack Obama and Belafonte.

As usual the Dems lie and cry.

[radiob-2009]

Allen has spent weeks battling the fallout from a series of missteps that started when he used what is sometimes regarded as a racial slur against at Webb campaign staffer of Indian descent. Bush made no mention of Allen's troubles.
Another racist Jane?

[janemcgreev1]

Blacks unfortunately vote Democratic because despite the vicious Racism of Woodrow Wilson, because FDR did nothing when Blacks were being lynched by the score by Byrd's predecessors Bilbo and Rankin - both Dems, because Kennedy sat on his perverted duff while Blacks were being hosed down or firebombed in Birmingham, they got the notion somehow that there was a future for them in the Democratic Party.

Remember, the GOP of the early 1960s was a bastion of WASPishness. Even Jewish people felt uncomfortable back then with Republicans as they should now with the Hitlerite Democrats. It was a false notion, egged on by corrupt types like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, that Blacks had a home in the Democratic Party. Of course that meant a Barrack Obama had to sit uncomfortably close to an unreconstructed racist like Bobby Byrd.

Today however, J.C. Watts, Colin Powell, Mike Steele, even Lynn Swann the great USC footballer are bringing Black Americans back to the Party of Lincoln - where they belong - not the party of Poll Taxes, of Lynch Laws, of Hoses and Firebombs and White Sheets.

[janemcgreev1]

bluestardad,

please wipe the spittle courtesy of your fellow democrats off that uniform. You're embarassing those who, like members of my family serve honorably and not bitterly.

and that goes for the lunatic clown radiob - he of the straightjacket fame, or the bozo who calls itself Huskerarmy - are you sure you didn't mean Hitlersarmy?

If a Republican says something insensitive, the baboons and nazi enthusiasts go ape. If a dumb dem like Hoyer or Byrd does it, they convienently hibernate. As usual clueless, dumb, and gutless.

[radiob-2009]

To everyone there are certain individuals that post here that do exactly as you say,not only on this post but others also.They are provacataurs and actually do the democratic party more good than harm.They antagonize to incite anger but if you read the Washinton Post or Times article that type of rhetoric combined with the real problems this country faces is driving people to the democratic party.In the state of Kansas alone 9 republicans have switched parties and are now running quite well against the republican incumbents and challengers.People want a middle ground.They are tired of the far right and the far left.

[huskerarmy]

Jane,

Here's a test. Please try to explain, without patronizing condesention, why blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Here's a clue... Blacks know where their best intersts lie. Your "fascist" and "racist" hooey is nothing more than empty projection, and anyone with half a brain can see it for what it is.

[bluestardad]

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[jjasonham]

Okay now I know JaneMcGreeve has absolutely nothing constructive to say.

[janemcgreev1]

radiob, address the subject, not your biases. The subject was and is a DEMOCRATIC RACIST. You know, just like Bobby Byrd, the Grand Kleagle of West Virginny (D-KKKW. Va.)